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Lesson Learned... The Hard way
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Posted by L.C.Gray on July 05, 2007 at 05:56:41 from (208.193.186.117):
Got me some education the hard way. Sometimes little things happen that lead up to an accident. They don't seem like a problem at the time, but let someting change in the formula and you'll get bit!
I did the p'rade thing yesterday. I had the '34 C all dolled up including a big red white and blue bow on the front. After the p'rade I elected to road it back across town to the trailer at the staging area. On the way there it started getting hot, so I stopped to remove the bow from the front to help it cool. The bow was tied on the bail that holds the cap on. While trying to undo the bow the bail flipped and the cap blew off with a violent eruption of antifreeze. Shouldn't have happened on an un-pressurized system.
Someone before me had made a gasket for the cap, I guess to keep it from slobbering and making a mess, but theres still an overflow tube right? I haven't looked yet, but I'm nearly sure what got me. We have an insect around here that loves to nest in any hole it can find in anything. It always packs both ends if its nest with mud. They can be quite stubborn to get out, sometimes requiring a ram-rod or digging it out when even high pressure air won't dislodge them.
I never thought the gasket could lead to that problem, but I never thought of the possibility of the overflow getting plugged up either. I wound up spending part of my Independence Day captive in the ER. I had burns on my right hand and arm, worst was on my hand where the glove was soaked and I just couldn't get it off fast enough. Its all bubbled up nicely.
I did learn though.... I'll be checking the drain tubes occasionally, and that gasket is history!
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